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          <strong>Note:</strong>
          <span> Using gVisor? You can add yourself to this page,
            contact <a href="mailto:gvisor-dev@googlegroups.com">
              gvisor-dev@googlegroups.com</a>
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    <p>This page lists companies that are known to use gVisor. This does not
      constitute an endorsement.
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    <h1>Companies using gVisor</h1>
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          <a href="https://www.antgroup.com/en" class="feature-link">
              Ant Group
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        <p class="info-users-text">Ant Group, develops online payment platforms.
          The company offers a wide range of financial services to consumers and
          businesses worldwide.
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              <p class="info-users-text"> At Ant Group, we are committed to
                keeping online transactions safe and efficient. Continuously
                improving security for potential system-level attacks is one
                of many measures. As a container runtime, gVisor provides
                container-native security without sacrificing resource
                efficiency. Therefore, it has been on our radar since it was
                released.
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        <p class="info-users-text">Read Ant Group's blog post on running gVisor
        in production at scale
          (<a href="/blog/2021/12/02/running-gvisor-in-production-at-scale-in-ant/">source</a>).
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          <a href="https://www.blinkops.com/" class="feature-link">
            Blink
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        <p class="info-text"> Blink is a company that specializes in security
          automation and orchestration powered by generative AI.
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        <p class="info-users-text">Blink uses gVisor to run pods with full
          isolation including system calls
          (<a href="https://www.blinkops.com/blog/run-containers-securely-with-gvisor-on-eks">source</a>).
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            Cloudflare
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        <p class="info-users-text"> Cloudflare is a content delivery network
          (CDN) and cloud computing security company. It provides a range of
          services to businesses of all sizes.
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                It takes just a few seconds for a new gVisor container to
                start up and begin executing meaningful work in a secure
                sandbox with near native performance.
                (<a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-pages-build-improvements/">A
                  new era for Cloudflare Pages builds</a>)
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            DigitalOcean
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        <p class="info-text"> DigitalOcean is a cloud computing provider that
        offers cloud infrastructure services to developers and businesses.
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        <p class="info-users-text">DigitalOcean uses gVisor in
          <a href="https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/">App Platform</a>
          as a container runtime sandbox
          (<a href="https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/details/limits/">source</a>).
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            Docker
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          Docker is a popular container management engine.
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          Docker for Mac
          <a href="https://docs.docker.com/desktop/release-notes/#4190">uses the gVisor network
            stack library</a> for better performance than <code>vpnkit</code>.
          Note that on Docker for Linux, you can
          <a href="/docs/user_guide/quick_start/docker/">use gVisor as a container runtime</a>.
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        <h2>
          <a href="https://www.google.com" class="feature-link">
            Google
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        <p class="info-text">gVisor was designed and developed to efficiently
          isolate production workloads at scale for Google services. There are
          millions of gVisor sandbox instances running daily. gVisor powers Google Cloud
          offerings <a href="https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/sandbox-pods">
              GKE Sandbox</a>, <a href="https://cloud.google.com/run">Cloud Run</a>,
              <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine">App Engine</a>, and more.
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        <h2>
          <a href="https://www.getgrist.com/" class="feature-link">
            Grist
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        <p class="info-text"> Grist combines the flexibility and familiarity of
          spreadsheets with the power of databases.
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        <p class="info-users-text">Grist uses gVisor to isolate documents from each other and the network
        (<a href="https://support.getgrist.com/self-managed/#how-do-i-sandbox-documents">source</a>).
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        <h2>
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            Modal
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        <p class="info-users-text"> Modal is a cloud platform that simplifies
          the execution and management of various computing workloads for data
          teams and application developers (particularly those working in the
          field of generative AI).
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                Compute jobs at Modal are containerized and virtualized using gVisor.
                (<a href="https://modal.com/docs/guide/security">Security at Modal</a>).
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        <p class="info-users-text">Modal labs tweeted about fully running on gVisor
        (<a href="https://twitter.com/bernhardsson/status/1708929516955930699">source</a>).
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            Tailscale
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        <p class="info-users-text">Tailscale provides a mesh-based VPN service
          designed to simplify secure networking between devices and servers.
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              <p class="info-users-text"> In userspace mode, Tailscale uses the
                gVisor netstack library, implementing networking in userspace.
                (<a href="https://tailscale.com/kb/1177/kernel-vs-userspace-routers">Kernel vs. netstack subnet routing &amp; exit nodes</a>).
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